Speech Dispatcher and Ldconfig

[Steve Holmes]

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I don't know about ldconfig but do realize that many programs' lib
modules get found automatically whenever an ldconfig is run.  In most
cases, these libraries are in /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib.  When Speech
Dispatcher is compiled directly onto a machine, this all seems to work
fine.  But when I built a binary Slackware package and subsequently
install that package onto a machine, the libs get placed in their
proper directories and all, but when I run speech-dispatcher, it can't
find the libraries.  When I did an 'ldconfig -v', the
speech-dispatcher libs didn't show up either.  But if I add
/usr/lib/speech-dispatcher to ld.so.conf, then 'ldconfig -v' shows the
library and dispatcher works fine.

What I'm wondering is why the difference and when does one really have
to add additional points to ld.so.conf? I thought all that would be
automatic.  I want the installation of these packages to go as
seemlessly as possible for the less experienced user who might not
think to mess with ldconfig.

Any ideas?

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